Bernie Sanders wants to let low iq criminals direct the country.

[apalisoc_9]

I agree with everything you said. Mandatory sounds too authoritarian.

I'm surprised some ciubtries dont provide days off for election. I mean its only one of the most important political choice you can make in the next 4yrs.

Or schedule it on a weekend like a lot of countries do. Weekdsys election would be ok if the process is modernized enough for quick voting but its not.

Definitely against Mandatory voting. But id reckon most non-voters dont vote because they're lazy to go through the whole proccess.

[Will Hunting]

They do it in the Scandinavians. Of course progressive policies seem radical to right-wing capitalists in Amurica.

The Republicans can't have it both ways. If felons in prison (and out of prison) can't vote, then in 2020 when congressional seats/electoral colleges are re-allocated, the population that can't vote shouldn't count towards each state's population. The current system where a state like Florida effectively gets two extra congressional seats and electoral colleges from a population of 1.5 million that couldn't vote prior to 2018 is the modern day version of the 3/5ths compromise when slaves couldn't vote but counted towards the Southern states' population.

[Winehole23]

The practice of counting people who are incarcerated and ineligibleto vote as residents of their prison cell inflates the population count indistricts where prisons are located. It increases the voting strength ofthose districts’ other residents relative to the residents of neighboringdistricts, and dilutes the voting strength of prisoners’ homecommunities. At the same time, correctional facilities are notdispersed evenly throughout most states, but are often found in morerural, predominantly white areas, while people incarcerated in thesefacilities are disproportionately people of color from comparativelyurban areas. Counting prisoners as residents of the district wherethey are incarcerated shifts political power from urban to more ruralareas. The confluence of prisoners’ ineligibility to vote, an increasein the United States’ prison population in recent decades, and thetreatment of people in prison as “residents” of the district where theyare incarcerated has skewed legislative apportionment and thedistribution of political power.

https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/vi...26&context=ulj

[Will Hunting]

^

[Winehole23]

he's got a point:

[spurraider21]

https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/vi...26&context=ulj

Having cake and eating it too

[MultiTroll]

As if criminals (politicians) don't already direct the country.